13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXXI)

1. The Slate Guy Desilu Productions staffer Bill McGovern slating scene after scene of Star Trek with a nonchalance bordering on apathy. Some of the greatest scenes and most iconic characters in sci fi TV history, and McGovern, clapboard in hand, looks like he couldn’t care less if his life depended on it (Desilu was an…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXX)

1. The Apartment doors of famous Chelsea Hotel Residents for Sale Through exhaustive research, roughly half of these large wooden doors can be traced to the iconic individuals who lived behind them, including Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jack Kerouac, Bob Marley, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Humphrey Bogart. On April 12th at the Ricco/Maresca…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXIX)

1. Little Houses on the Prairie A series on forgotten places around the world by Brendon Burton. 2. Abduction, Woodsen County, Kansas, 1897 Alex Hamilton of Woodsen County, Kansas, was awakened at 10:30 one night by the sound of a disturbance in the cow pasture on his farm. Peering into the night, he observed…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXVIII)

1. “University L”, somewhere in Belgium Captured by this urban explorer, with an excellent Flickr account of urban decay. 2. Karen Leadlay working on computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964 “Note to self: Invent printed circuits.” Via Straker’s World. 3. San Francisco’s 1940s Camera Obscura The Camera Obscura is a large-scale camera obscura,…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXVII)

1. Camels crossing the highway in UAE desert Clean up duty post-sandstorm involves plowing the sand. Found on Reddit. 2. Chicago has a large pack of coyotes that patrol the city, hunting rats 60 Wild Coyotes Patrol Chicago (and occasionally stop at convenience stores). Chicago’s Cook County now has over 60 coyotes fitted with radio…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXV)

1. Japanese Secret Love Hotels looking like a Wes Anderson Set True to their moniker, pay-by-the-hour love hotels cater to millions of Japanese couples every year… With increasing life expectancies, the rising age of marriage, and high population density, multigenerational households are ubiquitous. When married couples live in close quarters with elderly parents and children,…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXIV)

1. When Howard Hughes built the biggest plane in history (out of wood) Hughes’ H-4 Spruce Goose Because of wartime rationing on strategic materials such as aluminum, the plane was built almost entirely out of wood. A skeptical press dubbed it “The Spruce Goose.” Hughes hated the nickname. He felt it was an insult to…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXIII)

1. The Hidden Pirate Tower in Laguna Beach In 1926 a senator from Los Angeles, William E. Brown, bought the property and built the tower to provide his family access to the beach. A (now rusted) spiral staircase leads from the cliffs above, down through the tower, and to the beach below. The design of the…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXII)

1. This Most Excellent New Yorker Cover The New Yorker. 2. 160 Years of Ice Skating in New York City Ice skating in New York reveals the history of social spaces in the city that helped shape the foundations of modern life. Found on HyperAllergic 3. This Pair of Steampunk Goggles And…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCLXXI)

1. A Pink Scottish Castle Craigievar Castle, from this lovely Instagram account, touring the UK in a Morris Minor. 2. This 1930s LA Home For Sale comes with a key to famous High Tower elevator Accessed by the famous High Tower elevator, the Streamline Moderne-ish residence contains four bedrooms and 4.5 baths within its 2,616…